Author’s Rights and Royalties
If I were an artist, video game designer, or a producer, I would fight so that my rights as an author were not infringed. As people all over the world try to obtain copies of various products illegally, it is necessary to take appropriate measures to solve this problem. As an artist or a producer, I would make sure that all copies of songs and videos are produced using the latest copyright-defending technologies, various licences, and software programs that prevent forgers from copying audio and video products. Moreover, it is possible to campaign for introduction of more serious punishment for infringement of authors’ rights.
In addition, it is necessary to produce only licensed copies of the product including different data media such as audio and video compact disks, disks with games, and various software programs that are also considered the property of designers, producers, artists, and various companies. The control over the distribution of such products should be very strict in order to prevent crimes.
Information Systems
Different types of information systems are aimed at facilitating the process of collecting, processing, and storing data, managing other systems, and solving problems. Thus, information systems contribute to managerial efficiency, managerial effectiveness, and competitive positioning of organization.
In other words, different information systems such as Data Warehouse, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise System, Expert System, Geographic/Geospatial Information System, Global Information System, and Office Automation used before the dawn of computer era are applicable to different companies. For instance, TPS (Transaction Processing System) manages the data so that it was stored in a specific way whereas DSS (Decision Support System) is dealing with raw data inserted in the software program and combined with other available information to facilitate the process of decision-making.
The concept of competitive advantage can be interpreted in some measurable advantages of one enterprise over others; it is measurable to the extent that can be used by this enterprise to gain customers. A company can use information system to gain competitive advantage via better organisation of data and its storage; for instance, data can be stored in the way that allows direct access to it from inside the company to alter it and from outside the company so that customers could access the data they are interested in.
Electronic Business Models
The relationships between companies and customers have been changed due to the appearance of e-commerce models that seem to be more convenient for most customers decreasing the role of distributors and mediators and making the e-commerce more appealing. So, Pure-Play and Clicks-and-Mortar are absolutely different models whereas the former existed as initially designed for e-commerce and the later was adopted by larger companies to enter the e-commerce market so that customers should not go, search, select, buy, and have something delivered – they can click and order.
Decision Support System
An appropriate model and user interface are integral parts of Decision Support System architecture. A model that can be effectively applied to the system designed for a Sales Department middle level manager of a large car manufacturer is the economic conceptual model. The main advantage of this model is that it has a number of variables typical of an activity and the main processes that take place in the main activity; the model is aimed at depicting relations between main processes and variables and the changes that happen when a process or a variable changes. An interface enables a user to access the information provided by the program in an easy manner without performing excessive operations.
In this respect, a required system can be designed with the help of a prototyping approach which can reduce the risk of failure; besides, this approach seems to be the most suitable. The steps under the prototyping approach include definition of a problem, designing a prototype (in theory and in practice), checking the prototype, and completing the task.
Effective Promotion of a Website
A newly designed website requires effective promotion and advertising as well as any other product. Cultivating customers’ awareness and loyalty are integral parts of the process of promotion. An effective website should contain information interesting to some particular audience called target audience. Besides, banners and links to the website redirecting users from one source to your website can operate effectively as well as leaflets distributed in the street informing people about some services available from the company that can be accessed from your website.
In other words, your website can contain some advertisements of well-known or frequently-searched companies and services. Another hints that can be used to make the website more interesting for users is the frequency of updating information; some useful hints on the main category and information that can be used in everyday life, links to interesting blogs related to the topic of your website and other related topics can make the website a really popular one.
Management Information System
As manufacturing presupposes the production of a great amount of some goods/products out of raw materials, it is necessary to take into account the cycles of production and criteria that should be considered. In this respect, it is important to divide the information in accordance with a more appropriate way of its presentation into the one that should be introduced using a screen-based decision support system and the one that can be provided via printed reports.
Thus, printed reports can contain the information on the figures demonstrating the progress of a company whereas the screen-based decision support system can represent the progress with the help of diagrams, graphs, and charts demonstrating the changes compared to the results of the last month/quarter/year/decade. In other words, the screen-based decision support system can be useful if you want to demonstrate the progress or regress in some sector/department and the way things can be improved if some variable is changed.
Capturing of Transactions
Personal business involves great responsibility when something goes wrong; in this respect, liability insurance system and qualified management can guarantee that the productivity is at the appropriate level and nothing can damage it. Modern technologies and information systems are designed to facilitate the operation of managerial groups and privately owned businesses. In other words, it is necessary to capture every transaction of a purchase by customers in a completed and accurate manner in order to be able to analyse the data and take appropriate measures to increase the sales level. These changes can be taken after analysing the frequency of purchasing some goods and the goods that are in demand regardless of the season. Besides, some analysis would be beneficial to plan the delivery of goods needed in larger amounts for some special occasions such as holidays.
Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning
Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning system can be beneficial to think multiple business process. As this system is aimed at organising all processes and resources in an accurate manner so that all parties concerned could easily access the information provided by other members of the process, it is necessary to enumerate its advantages. The most positive feature is the interrelations established by internal and external users of the system.
In other words, the ERP can be considered an integrated solution because it combines the information about internal and external resources being targeted at reaching a common goal. Potential problems of implementing Enterprise Resource Planning can be that this system manages the resources only and is not designed to take into account certain variables and changes that can occur due to various problems and contingencies. Moreover, this system has a limited number of users that are able to access the system and the morale of employees can be shifted once the program is launched.
Key Elements of Business Continuity Plan
The business continuity plan is the one designed to take into account all resources and provide effective measures in case of some failures and those necessary for recovery including use of competitive advantage and aimed at ensuring that the business runs long. So, the five major pieces of information related to business continuity plan are the following: resources assessment, recovery plan, competitive advantage, threat analysis, and implementation of a plan. The steps necessary for a firm’s disaster recovery plan include a backup plan to save the data and proper measures to predict and prevent a recurring disaster.